In this piece for the Huffington Post Blog, Phil Smith, an adoptive father, writes about his and his wife’s experience with a program Concurrent Planning, run by a specialist team in London, UK. Concurrent Planning is a combined fostering and adoption approach for babies under the age of two which allows foster parents to adopt the child, while still allowing for the possibility for the child to be reunited with her or his birth family in the case of such a family court decision. “We had to approach this process appreciating that if [family reunification] was possible, it would be the first choice for any baby. We would know we had been a vital safety net for the child, that we had minimised upheaval in the child's life and provided stability and love.”
